<OT> Call: Variations within OT workshop

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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:22:26 +0100
From: Jennifer Spenader <jennifer@ling.su.se>

Call for papers:

Stockholm workshop on:
Variations within Optimality Theory

Recently there has been a proliferation of different “dialects” of 
optimality theory (OT); e.g. bi-directional optimality theory, stochastic 
optimality theory, primitive optimality theory, etc. Many of these dialects 
were developed to handle short-comings in standard OT for problems 
particular within a specific linguistic field, but it is not clear how the 
different OT dialects work for problems outside that particular area. This 
workshop aims to bring together researchers using different forms of OT in 
different fields within linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, 
morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The emphasis is on how 
different OT dialects support or fail to support the analysis of a certain 
problems in order to make their differences and similarities more 
transparent. The characteristics of the different forms of OT and how they 
relate to different problems, rather than the characteristics of the 
analysed problems themselves, should be the central focus.

We invite abstracts on all topics related to optimality theory, including, 
but not limited to:

- comparisons between different forms of OT
- comparative studies of the same problem within more than one form of OT
- application of an OT-dialect to a problem in a field new to that dialect
- discussions of the inability of some forms of OT to handle certain problems
- discussions of the meta-characteristics of the different types of OT
- discussions of learning algorithms for different types of OT and how they 
measure up with different data
- discussions of computer implementations of OT dialects and their 
characteristics

In addition to talks we may also make time for demonstrations of computer 
implementations of OT-algorithms.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
All authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract. The length
of abstracts for talks should be at most 5 single-column
pages (each accepted talk will have a duration of 30' plus 10' discussion). 
Proposals for program demonstrations should be at most 3 single-column 
pages. All submissions should also include a separate cover page specifying 
the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address and title of 
the paper.

The abstracts should be submitted electronically (in LaTeX,
postscript, html, ascii, .doc or pdf format) to: otworkshop@ling.su.se

REGISTRATION:
The relevant information (fees, booking, etc.) pertaining to that point can be
found at the website (http://www.ling.su.se/otworkshop/) by following the 
link to the registration.


IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstracts due: February 1st
Acceptance notice: March 1st
Final version due for proceedings: April 9th
Workshop dates: April 26-27

INVITED SPEAKER:
Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE :
Paul Boersma (Univ. of Amsterdam), Anders Eriksson (Stockholm Univ.), Östen 
Dahl (Stockholm Univ.),  Hanjung Lee (Chapel Hill), Tomas Riad (Stockholm 
Univ.), Jennifer Spenader (Stockholm Univ.), Henk Zeevat (ILLC Amsterdam)

ORGANIZATION:
The workshop will take place at Stockholm University. The local
organizers are Jennifer Spenader, Anders Eriksson, and Östen Dahl.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
News about the workshop will be posted on the workshop's web page at
www.ling.su.se/otworkshop/
Questions can be sent to otworkshop@ling.su.se.

Information about Stockholm University:
www.su.se






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Jennifer Spenader, PhD
Computational Linguistics
Dept. of Linguistics
Stockholm University
10691 Stockholm
Sweden
email: jennifer@ling.su.se
home page: http://www.ling.su.se/staff/jennifer/index.html
tel, arb: +46 8-161761
fax: +46 8-155389
tel, hem +46 8-6554704
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